Single-unit Analysis of Substantia Nigra Pars Reticulata Neurons in Freely Behaving Rats with Genetic Absence Epilepsy
| العنوان: | Single-unit Analysis of Substantia Nigra Pars Reticulata Neurons in Freely Behaving Rats with Genetic Absence Epilepsy |
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| المؤلفون: | Colin Deransart, Carl H. Lücking, Bernhard Hellwig, Miriam Heupel-Reuter, Jean-François Léger, Detlef H. Heck |
| المصدر: | Epilepsia. 44:1513-1520 |
| بيانات النشر: | Wiley, 2003. |
| سنة النشر: | 2003 |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | Basal Ganglia, Epilepsy, Neural Pathways, Basal ganglia, medicine, Animals, Ictal, Cortical Synchronization, Evoked Potentials, Tetrode (biology), Electrocorticography, Neurons, Brain Mapping, medicine.diagnostic_test, Electroencephalography, Rats, Inbred Strains, Neurophysiology, medicine.disease, Electrodes, Implanted, Rats, Substantia Nigra, Absence seizure, Epilepsy, Absence, nervous system, Neurology, Spike sorting, Neurology (clinical), Nerve Net, Psychology, Neuroscience |
| الوصف: | Summary: Purpose: The substantia nigra pars reticulata (SNpr) is assumed to be involved in the control of several kinds of epileptic seizures, an assumption based mostly on neuropharmacologic evidence. However, only very few neurophysiological recordings from the basal ganglia support neuropharmacologic data. We investigated the electrophysiologic activity of SNpr neurons in rats with genetic absence epilepsy. Methods: Electrocorticography (ECoG) and multi-unit recordings using permanently implanted tetrodes were obtained in freely behaving rats. After spike sorting, auto- and crosscorrelation analysis was used to detect oscillatory neuronal activities and synchronizations. Results: During interictal periods, neither oscillation nor synchronization could be observed in the firing patterns of SNpr neurons. At the beginning of the absence seizure, the firing rate increased significantly. The SNpr neurons started firing in bursts of action potentials. Bursts were highly correlated to the spikeand-wave discharges (SWDs) in the ECoG, mainly after the spike component of the cortical spike-and-wave complex. Moreover, pairs of SNpr neurons tended to fire synchronously. Before the end of the seizure, the firing rate decreased progressively, and the burst-firing pattern ended at or before the end of the SWDs. Once the SWDs had stopped, the SNpr neurons resumed their basal firing pattern as before the seizure onset. Conclusions: These results provide electrophysiologic evidence that firing patterns and synchronization of SNpr neurons are in phase with the occurrence of SWDs. The findings support the concept that nigral control mechanisms are involved in modulating the propagation of an ongoing generalized seizure. Key Words: Multi-unit recordings—Tetrode—Substantia nigra pars reticulate—Freely moving—Absence epilepsy. |
| تدمد: | 1528-1167 0013-9580 |
| DOI: | 10.1111/j.0013-9580.2003.26603.x |
| URL الوصول: | https://explore.openaire.eu/search/publication?articleId=doi_dedup___::5acb8bc7bb0cfc9a44769b68055eae89 https://doi.org/10.1111/j.0013-9580.2003.26603.x |
| Rights: | CLOSED |
| رقم الانضمام: | edsair.doi.dedup.....5acb8bc7bb0cfc9a44769b68055eae89 |
| قاعدة البيانات: | OpenAIRE |
| تدمد: | 15281167 00139580 |
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| DOI: | 10.1111/j.0013-9580.2003.26603.x |